| Title: | Letter, John Dury To [Hartlib] |
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| Dating: | 21 July 1655 |
| Ref: | 4/3/109A-110B: 110B BLANK |
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[left margin, H: No. 63. Iulj. 21. 1655.]
Deare freind
I receiue iust now yours of the 13th Iuly. I haue had time only to read your printed newes for which I thanke you; but I would not haue you to clippe them so neare; & besides some leaues are left out & one cut half off. it is not a prime matter the cutting off of halfe a finger bradth of paper, it saues nothing of the Charge in postage & incommodats very much the keeping & communicating of the newes to others which is all the use of them almost. I had rather they should bee sent without beeing clipt at all.
I haue not redde the written things for want of time. all this weeke hath beene spent in making dispatches & writing letters to the seuerall Earles of the Wetteraw, to the Prince of Nassaw residing at Dillenberg & to the Ministerie of Heidelberg to whom this large letter was written, wherof you haue here the Copie. of which I haue giuen some notice to Mr Thurlow because it hath beene written to keep them within the bounds of their dutie towards me & my busines from which some of them were beginning to go astray as I was sufficiently informed by an eare witnes; & I giue you full leaue to impart it to whom you will Chiefly in the Low Countries where some perhaps are of the same Leauen with some in the forenamed place; for I must doe some right; that all at Heidelberg are not taxed; it is some only: the Chief viz. Tossanus & some others are blamelesse in my thoughts, & this you may impart also in case you should heare of their discourses from any other hand; for you must not take notice as hauing heard any thing of this from me, it is sufficient that I know it; <but> it must not bee knowen to any that I know it.
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by two or three lines in your written newes I see that your freind at Leiden is foreward in his discourse; I hope when I haue ridde my hands of the throng which now I am in the Lord will inable me not to bee backward in what I am to Contribute. concerning Mr Schlezer I haue not met with him, nor doe I know how hee hath disposed of himself I invited him hither; hauing receiud a letter from him when hee was but two or three dayes iourney from hence; but the addresse which hee gaue me wherby to write an answer failed & was not to bee found at Francfort; & so I sent my letter at all aduenture to Cassel to see if it could find him out since I haue not heard of him. I wish hee could bee employed & if you can suggest to me a way to Contribut to it I shall willingly appeare; if hee bee with you (for hee wrote to me that hee would go to England) I pray remember <left margin: my> seruice to him & let him know that I am sorry that wee could not meet: how euer God hath so ordered it & wee must acquiesce. as for the 200lib. if you did shew them the grounds of my pretensions I hope they would see cause not to doe mee wrong. & as for him that was the cause of taking it away I pray God hee may haue had a good Conscience in doing it, & that is all the ill that I shall wish him for it. if it come in I shall I hope bee able to beare your Charges better then hitherto I haue done: if not let us doe as wee may & can for God requires no more of us, but to doe according to ability.
you giue me a touch or two which make me glad the one is of Practicalll Divinity, the other of the Translating of the confession, & you giue but a touch of them which seeme to giue some hope that something is like & no more but like to bee done: I pray let me heare more of this one way or other that is whether any thing bee in hand to bee done or not to bee done, that either way I may bee affected with sutable motions to doe that which is my part towards [catchword: God &]
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God & men in it; for if I liue I shall neuer leaue neither God nor men, if there bee any that loue God amongst you, till something bee done; & belieue it some will haue cause to bee ashamed of it, if nothing bee done. but I hope God who hath honoured us with so many deliuerance & enlarged us, will not suffer us to bee straitned in his seruice now when so great a dore is opened, & wee so full of meanes, & hauing no imaginable impediment to let us, except it bee the loue of ease & the pleasure of plentie.
you write nothing of my wife; nor haue I heard from herself. perhaps shee is in the country. when shee writes not I pray let me heare from you of her. the Lord bee with you & all yours, I rest
Hanaw your assured seruant in all
this 21th. Iuly. possible endevours in Christ
1655 I. D.
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The letter which Monsieur Vlrich here sends to his Son is left open for you to read, but it is in French, hee must interprit it to you; is there no possibility of employment for that young man? me thinks sir Oliuer & you should bee able to find out a way for him. you would oblige his father one of the usefullest & actiuest men of his way in Europe: & really it would bee a great content to my spirit to see that some thing is done for that mans Son, who alwayes has deserued of us, & deserues of the public cause more then twentie others.